Chords
Heat Of The Wide Afternoon

Key: A

Introduction:

                     G    C    D    G  
G                                                                                    C  
Carolina highway, past boroughs and pine breaks
        G                                                                            D  
The road long behind me, every signpost reminds me
G                                                                            C  
My eyes have grown heavy, my wheels drone on steady
G                                    C                                 D                    G  
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.
D                                            C                    G  
I    been here forever, my whole life at least.
                                                                          Em  
Am                                    D  
Trapped between morning optimism and night fleeting dreams.
G                                                                         C  
Here where it matters, where reality looms
G                                    C                                 D                            G  
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.
G                                                      C  
This road was a drug when I started way back
                                                                  G                                      D  
Each hill that I killed was like a pill that I took to relax.
G                                                                    C  
Till the peace in the valleys, got a little too peaceful
                                     G                                         D  
All the ridges I    run and all that I    done
                             G  
has left me with eyes full.
G                                                    C  
Eyes full of the worst, eyes full of the best
                                        G                                         D  
Eyes full of the tiredness that won let me rest.
G                                                                 C  
All the places I go to, no place is brand new
G                                      C                              D                            G  
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.
Chorus
G                                            C  
Some people sit still, some people go fast
G                                                            D  
Some go right to it, some never get past
G                                                    C  
Laying a map out, they don plan just assume.
G                                         D                                                 G  
And wind up forever in the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.
Chorus
G                                              C  
Here where it matters, where reality looms
             G                      C                                 D                            G  
In the heat of the wide, the heat of the wide, the wide afternoon.
                  G    C    D    G